What's a really good, funny comedy book?

Question

I want an actual funny book - I don't mean a sort-of funny rom-com type thing, I want to read a really hilarious book.

Answer 1

I though Matt Beaumont's E was really funny... some people didn't but it was very original too, fictional but all written in emails leading up to and after events.  Another good one is Jenny Eclair's first novel, can't remember what it was called but it made me LOL

Answer 2

Don't drop the Coffin by Barry Albin -Dyer

(memoirs of an Undertaker)hilarious !!!!

Answer 3

Whether it's "really hilarious" or not is kind of a subjective thing - books that make other people laugh often leave me cold, and vice versa.

Some books I've found laugh-out-loud funny:

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series

Anything by Martin Millar (he writes comedies about lowlife characters - squatters, new age travellers etc)

Anything by PG Wodehouse

"Money", "Success" and "London Fields" by Martin Amis

"A Long Way Down" and "How To Be Good" by Nick Hornby

"Love In A Cold Climate" by Nancy Mitford

"Decline and Fall" by Evelyn Waugh

Answer 4

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

The Finer Points of a Sausage Dog by Alexander McCall Smith

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Sorting out Billy by Jo Brand

Answer 5

Tom Sharpe is a quality writer. I recommend that you read Wilt. I defy you not to laugh out loud (as I did on the bus) when he tried to lose the blow-up doll.

Answer 6

jeremy clarkson's books are quite funny for non-fiction and for fiction kathy lette  

Answer 7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Bill Bryson's works.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

Answer 8

read one of jeremy clarkson's books  

Answer 9

'A Brief History of Tractors in The Ukraine' which sounds completely uninteresting.. is both hilarious and moving. try it!

Answer 10

I liked Peter Kay's autobiography - he's pretty funny.

Answer 11

terry pratchett books are good - discworld especially.

Answer 12

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels, as others have said. If you're not particularly after fiction, I read Danny Wallace's "Join Me" recently and found that very entertaining.

Answer 13

Argh!  oat345 beat me to it!

I was going to recommend Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  There are audiobooks of it too.  ^_^